prefented by Meffrs. Fairbairn and Hoy. 253 
Raifed from feeds brought from New South 
Wales, in Sion Gardens, where it flowered in 1790. 
Mr. Hoy.» 
The Branches are fomewhat angular. 
Leaves alternate, oblique, of a glaucous green, very much undü- 
lated, and near two inches in length, with a ftrong central - 
rib. : io £i ! 
Flowers on the young branches very numerous, fragrant like 
thofe of Spiræa Ulmaria, and growing three or four together, 
in little heads. 
- Calyx fmall, green, obfoletely ciliated. 
Corolla greenifh white, fometimes reddifh, of four petals. 
Stamina numerous. 
6. MIMOSA fuaveolens. 
Mimosa foliis linearibus acumiratis rectis mafgine carti- 
laginéis : primordialibus pinnatis, ramis triquetris. 
Flowered 1790, in Sion Gardens, from feeds brought 
from New South Wales. Mr. Hoy. h 
The Branches are moft acutely triangular, and much compreffed ; 
their edges bright red. 
Leaves alternate, four or five inches long, with a rib and margin 
like the laft. 
Flowers in axillary racemi, yellowifh white, fragrant, of four 
petals. 
Stamina numerous. : 
Young Cap/ules fmooth and glaucous. 
This fpecies, as well as the preceding one, belongs to that 
fingular tribe of Mimofas, for the knowledge of which we are 
6 . indebted 
